“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's s...”

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”

“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.”

“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”

“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”

“I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven.”

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness an...”