Andre Maurois

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Character • Destiny • Growth

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Age • Habits • Time

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.

Age • Attitude • Generation

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Culture • History • Society

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Business • Sport • War

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Conflict • Crisis • Marriage

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Experience • Love • Psychology

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Communication • Happiness • Marriage

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

Happiness • Improvement • Mindfulness

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Love • Marriage • Perseverance

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

Confidence

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

Family • Loneliness • Relationships

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Honesty • Perception • Personality