“Dawn comes early when you wish it would not. The hours flash when you want them to drag.”

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

“Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.”

“There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.”

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.”

“If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.”

“There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.”

“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”

“Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”