I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.