I Am Not An Optimist But A Great Believer Of Hope

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

“Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.”

“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.”

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”