Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.

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.

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.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.