Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

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.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

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

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

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

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.