To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.