Andre Maurois

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

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.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

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.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.