The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

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

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.

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.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.

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.