There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.