There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

... one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet

Solitude sometimes is best society.

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.