To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

Punctuality is the thief of time

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.