If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.