It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

to everything there is an end - except fear.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.