I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Try to realize it’s all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you’re only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

We are wiser than we know.

I’m nobody, who are you?

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Don’t believe your own publicity. You can’t; you’ll start thinking that you’re better than you are.