I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.