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.

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

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

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.