I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.