Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!