Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.