Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

I think people believe what they want to believe.

My Greatest Failures has been My Greatest Success~

Birthday is a glorious day.

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

A leader gets things done.