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

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

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.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

The only joy in the world is to begin.