The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pulled myself out by the hair and went to Madrid...Madrid is a lovely enchanting city, and there was almost ready for me a kind of penthouse full of sunlight, a roof garden, and so on. I gave one look at it all, returned to the hotel and went to bed and wept bitterly for eleven hours...Why? Because I had seen Paris and could not endure the thought of being anywhere else.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.