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.

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.