To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

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.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

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