The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.