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.

- Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

- Andre Maurois

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

- Andre Maurois

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in…

- Andre Maurois

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

- Andre Maurois

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.

- Andre Maurois

Live as if you were eternal.

- Andre Maurois

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

- Andre Maurois

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

- Andre Maurois