Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.