Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

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.

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

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.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.