Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—