The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.