If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

Every man needs a place to go to.