There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

...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.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

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

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.