The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.