Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.

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

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.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.