Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.