Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.