No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.