“I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness that darkness flung me Is worthless as ignorance : nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“This is the best of all possible worlds.”