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.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

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.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

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