Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

A holy spirit lives within you.