Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.