The less heart, the more comfort.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

We've all gathered together, and whatever goes down is what goes down.

Self-respect is the best of all.

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.