serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

this is the upside of already being eternally damned

The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

I'm restless and wildI fall, but I tryI need someone to understand.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.