Andre Maurois

Business is a combination of war and sport.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

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

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.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

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

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

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 true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.