There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.