What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.

Time heals all things but one: Time.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.