Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

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

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

Misfortunes never come singly.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

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.