A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem. |
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. |
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. |
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. |
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast |
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. |
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world |
Business is a combination of war and sport. |
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know |
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know |
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form |
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. |
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. |
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. |