Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.