No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.