Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.

The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need of a brothel, to exercise their profession.

We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let's like it.

When you were in least of need, people or objects turned up but when you were in a fraught situation, you would never find them.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.