"Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible."

"The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain."

"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."

"There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds."

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

"I do not take drugs, I am drugs."

"Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child."

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."

"Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it."

"Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."