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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an... →
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.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.