It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.