When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

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

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

My sorrow is my castle.