There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.
Realize that true happiness lies within you.
Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.
The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.