You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

words can never get at the truth.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

You waste life when you waste good food.