Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.