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

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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

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