“I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”

A strong egoism is a protection.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

If you can’t do it, give up!

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.