It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.