"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"

"Business is the salt of life"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

"Immortality - a fate worse than death"

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy"

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"