I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry. ... No, no!

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

To advise is not to compel.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.