"Truth, like light, is not subject to custom."

"Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."

"The evil that is in the world comes from two things: ignorance and not thinking."