We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.