Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.