“You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.”

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“Do not be swept away by new slogans and leaders who had a doubtful past. Do not fritter away your time and energy in encouraging or participating in mushroom parties an organizations.”

“Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you once made. If you want different results, make different choices.”

“Your life is a reflection of standards you set for yourself. Raise your standards so will your quality of life.”

“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”

“I do not see any morality in believing that your sins have been taken away on the cross, or from those who advise their followers to do whatever they want in life.”

“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”

“You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink with, laugh with, borrow money from, lend money to, stay away from their special girls as you want them to stay away from yours, and above all, never break your word to, once it's been given. And that is all the obligation you have, all you have the right to expect.”