Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Sadness is a state of sin.