Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.