“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”

“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”