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

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.