All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.