A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.