You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.