“The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.”

“With the girls, on the other hand, if the pleasure which I enjoyed was selfish, at least it was not based on the lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone and prevents us from admitting that, when we chat, it is no longer we who speak, that we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people and not of a self that differs from them.”

“No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.”

“Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.”

“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”

“Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us”