We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

You have to be excited about your life.

No power in the 'verse can stop me!

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.