People should be interested in books, not their authors.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.