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

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

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

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

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

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.