“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

“The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. ”

“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”

“The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.”