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.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.