Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all oneself.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture society class nation one belongs no matter how normal moral or mature one takes oneself to be.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery a metaphor for a proof a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths and oneself for an oracle is inborn in us.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.