I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.