... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

When every one is in the wrong every one is in the right.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days.

So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.