There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.