Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

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

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

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

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.