If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

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."

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.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

A friend married is a friend lost.