Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.