“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.”

Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.

I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.

Youth is a marvelous garment.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.

I don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.

I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.

That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Hope doesn’t come from words. Hope only comes from actions.

All we have to do is to wake up and change.

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.

When you start defending someone by justifying their actions; you’re too attached.

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.

She will be the one who doesn’t give a damn about what you say, and only what you do.