"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

"The best way to get approval is not to need it."

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts..."

"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."

"If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this."

"For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest."