“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part o...”

“Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.”

“I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.”

“It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”

“On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each other that they are all overgrown boys. Of the love of fellows they know nothing. They cannot lov...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”