“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.”

“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”

“Better is art, than evil strength; for with art men may hold what strength may not obtain.”

“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”

“What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”