“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.”

“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”

“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”

“How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.”

“Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? ”

“За да намерим приятел, трябва да си затворим едното око, за да го запазим – двете”

“My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first”