For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.