Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

having nothing and possessing all things,

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

Some people belong entirely to others… They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves.

He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more

"Like all human beings, like me, like us, they wished for what they did not have. "I am alone and I want what I have not and what I shall never have." It is by this need that people live, and by this need that people die."

To esteem everyone is to esteem no one

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.