Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

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 need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

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

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

An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.