Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.