if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret