A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

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.

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.

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.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.