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

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

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

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.