The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

For a minute or perhaps two-and this is a long time-the theater makes man better and happier on this earth.