Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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.