Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.