Each bird must sing with his own throat.
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population – the intelligent ones or the fools?
The devil is compromise.
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
The strong must learn to be lonely.
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.