“It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. ”

“Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness”

“You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide. ”

“... a preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize murder only through wickedness.”

“True religion, indeed, is that which does not have to be avowed in order to provide the solace that at times...if only rarely...you cannot do without.”

“L'amore sano è quello che abbraccia una donna sola e intera, compreso il suo carattere e la sua intelligenza.”

“Yoksa ben sigaraya kendi yeteneksizliğimin ayıbını yükleyebilmek için mi öylesine tutkundum? acaba sigara alışkanlığımdan vazgeçsem o umduğum güçlü, üstün adam olur muydum? belki beni tiryakiliğime zincirleyen de o kuşku olmuştur, çünkü insanın kendisini gizli kalmış bir büyük adam sanması rahat bir yaşam biçimidir.”