“In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.”

“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”

“Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.”

“It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.”

“Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.”

“Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.”

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which he useless...”

“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it foreve...”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”