"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned."
"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."
"No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me."
"I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted."
"In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune."
"The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism."
"Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death."
"Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls."
"If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?"
"I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty."
"I converse with my dog through ESP."
"Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end."
"The feeble soul merely whines and complains."
"I have been the victim of heartless malice."
"I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it."
"I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it."
"The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race."
"One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India."
"I am a Westerner of Westerners!"
"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."
"I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life."
"I will ge glad to have done with this life forever."
"My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth."
"Character, I am sure, lies in the genes."