"I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared."

"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

"If there is no God, then I am God."

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering..."

"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself."

"I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams."

"The man who lies to himself... comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth."

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys."

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."

"The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That shall be his punishment — as well as prison."

"A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense."

"If you want to overcome the world, overcome yourself."

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."