He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.