What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.