“A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”

“Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself. ”

“Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself”

“No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.”

“For what man has sought for is, indeed, neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live intensely, fully, perfectly. When he can do so without exercising restraint on others, or suffering it ever, and his activities are all pleasurable to him, he will be saner, healthier, more civilised, more himself. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself”

“When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.”

“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”

“He who knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything.”

“…but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”