“You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces.”

“how thoughtful is thoughtful enough.... how much thinking does thinking over ...”

“A strong and bitter booksickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave this rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free, untrammeled, illiterate superman?”

“Angry people want you to see how powerful they are... loving people want you to see how powerful You are.”

“You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.”

“Wether you like it or not, life drags you forward.”

“It was well for him, with his chivalry and mysticism, to make the grand renunciation. But it takes two to make love, or to make a quarrel. She was not an insensate piece of property to be taken up or laid down at his convenience. You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover's soul was not you own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.”