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

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

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.