“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”

“Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something more.”

“The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?”

“Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.”

“We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.”

“In the realm of dream and imagination all men are equal.”

“People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know — and that with difficulty.”