It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future.

Losing some data is possible... after too much of it... everything remains possible.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.