Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.