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.

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.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Experience is a necessary education.

Find time to meditate and see how you can improve your life and achieve your goals

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.