I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.