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

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

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

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.