It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.