I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.