“We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.”

“Do we want also to be world champion in moaning?”

“Mind and body were originally one. Do not think that the power you have is only the power you ordinarily use and moan that you have little strength. The power you ordinarily use is like the small visible segment of an iceberg. When we unify our mind and body and become one with the universe, we can use the great power that is naturally ours.”

“Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.”

“Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals.”

“And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.”

“I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.”

“We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that?”

“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”

“Marriage is one of those things that works best when people don’t think about it too much.”