Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.