"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."

"Failure too is a form of death."

"Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness."

"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."

"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."