> Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman has one solution —it is called pregnancy.

> The twentieth century. Abbe Galiani once said: “Foresight is the cause of Europe's present wars. If one would take pains to foresee nothing, the whole world would be tranquil, and I do not believe that one would be worse off for not waging war.” Since I do not by any means share the unwarlike views of my friend Galiani, I am not afraid of predicting a few things and thus, possibly, of conjuring up the cause of wars.