“Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.”

“I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward”

“Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.”

“Alas! Alas if your unshakable view of the world relies on your circumstantial receiving of charity!”

“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”

“Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. ”

“Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.”