"I am convinced that the law of non-violence has come to stay."

"To be truthful, you must be non-violent."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."