“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. ”

“To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.”

“No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.”

“Happy endings are made by finding the perfect moment to look away.”

“Why is the word yes so brief?it should bethe longest,the hardest,so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,so that upon reflection you could stopin the middle of saying it.”

“… if necessary, the books shall be divided as follows:you get the odd, I get the even pages;"the books" are understood to mean the ones we used to read aloudtogether, when we would interrupt our reading for a kiss,and would get back to the book after half an hour …”

“I have brushed my teeth.This day and I are even.”