There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.