“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”

“I am not a businessman. I never have been. I have problems dealing with money. My entire career has been managed by family members or managers who have looked after my affairs. I am totally ignorant as far as money matters are concerned. For me to suddenly be thrown into this huge corporate ocean without adequate managerial capacity was perhaps the unmaking of the corporation”

“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”

“I can be forced to live without happiness,
But I will never consent to live without honor.”

“I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.”

“It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.”

“Without having a goal it is difficult to score.”

“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss”

“I managed to fail Arts I, a course that a moderately intelligent amoeba could have passed without special coaching.”