“There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.

I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.

Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.

Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Don’t let them bother you. In fact, don’t even call them problems; refer to them as “challenges” or “situations”.

Money is a lubricant. It lets you “slide” through life instead of having to “scrape” by.

Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.