“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.”

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.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations.

The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

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.

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 marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

I like music, I listened to all rappers; people like Jeezy, Yo Gotti, T.I.

I’ve been through all the bad parts of the streets.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning.

I don’t really have a writing process. I don’t write at all but, honestly, I feel like it’s a modern-day writing because everything is technology and if I go in there and freestyle and I keep it.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.