Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.