The devil is compromise.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

The strongest men are the most alone.

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.