The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

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

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

Happiness is when you're content with what you have and appreciate what you get with gratitude.

If you say one lie enough times, it becomes truth people start to believe. (That's how it works - Extracted)

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

Some things are more important that life itself

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

Those who stand in the way of virtue shall fail!