If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

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

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.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.