The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.