As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.