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

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

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.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

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