“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

You must accept the reality of other people.

You must accept the reality of other people.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Stars fade away in the morning, but your beauty still remains evident. Perhaps stars envy you.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.