As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.