"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."

"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."

"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."

"I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life."

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."