“To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.”

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.

All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I’m not that comfortable.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

Happiness looks good on me, but the pain is so comfortable.