Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

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

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.