n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Celui qui se relève de ses faux pas aura gagné l'estime des dieux. De toutes les couleurs qu'on lui en a fait voir, il construira un arc-en-ciel.

The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and when does it put us. How just by one religion a lot of people live in the lie!

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.