Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.