For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.