“We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.”

Love is desire for knowledge.

But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

Don’t mix wine and women.

You don’t remember days, you remember moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause. In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about.

One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.

Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work – then try to trump it.

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.