A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.