Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

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.

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