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

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

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

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

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

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.