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

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

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.

An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.