Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Andre MauroisPeople are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre MauroisAn old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.
Andre MauroisMen fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
Andre Maurois