Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.