Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

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'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.