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

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.