“The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”

“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”

“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.”

“You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.”

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”