The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
