The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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.
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.