I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.