We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

A small profit is better than a big loss.

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

I appreciate all that I am and all that I have. Stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you do have.