What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

Right attitudes produces right action