If you create a character, you create a destiny.

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

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.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

Business is a combination of war and sport.