The only joy in the world is to begin.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.