The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.

You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

The difference being that people fear us. When people fear you, you have power.

Love is fate that ends in tragedy.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel.""I can feel.""No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine.""It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

It takes self-discipline and persistence action to achieve the goal.

People fail forward to success.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.