Success is a result, not a goal

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances.

The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything