The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

If it's to be, it's up to me.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.