If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.