The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.