The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

We are all prisoners of our own experiences, and the key to freedom lies in understanding them.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Character is destiny.