1. “Every child has the capacity to be everything.”
2. “Borrowing is not much better than beggeing; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.”
3. “Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.”
4. “Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.”
5. “What matters most is that we learn from living.”
6. “Whatever you’re meant to do , do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
7. “Women are slaves to their beauty.”
8. “A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.”
9. “Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.”
10. “Coincidences are God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
11. “Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn’t seem to lessen their horrors.”
12. “Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.”
13. “Intelligence forbids tears.”
14. “It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.”
15. “Trust no friend without faults and love a women, but no angel”
16. “People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.”
17. “We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.”
18. “If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.”
19. “A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.”
20. “It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”
21. “What is hero without love for mankind.”
22. “Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.”
23. “Literature is analysis after the event.”
24. “The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.”
25. “Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.”
26. “Laughter is by definition healthy.”
27. “You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”
28. “Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.”
29. “A story is how we construct our experiences.”
30. “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
