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.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

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.

We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.