In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

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.