The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. - Jean Giraudoux

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other — by their skins, their language, their smell: always jealous of each other, always hating each other — they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so she will allow you to leave her, you've got to annoy her.