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

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.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

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

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.