A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body,...
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an a...