In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
“I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.”
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”