"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."

"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."

"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."

"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."

"Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual."

"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."

"When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive."

"I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare."

"Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?"

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

"Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about."

"You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender."