I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

The self is every person's true enemy.

In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one s own fiercest enemy.

Live and die your own way, unnoticed.

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

When it comes to education all obstacles must be removed. This must become a priority for humanity.

What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.

I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing

The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.