1. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
2. “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”
3. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
4. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
5. “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
6. “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
7. “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
8. “Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
9. “On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
10. “Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.”
11. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
12. “One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.”
13. “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
14. “Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.”
15. “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
16. “Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”
17. “Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”
18. “Language is wine upon the lips.”
19. “It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
20. “To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
