Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,

A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

—fear comes only when you don’t have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there’s nothing new worth learning. I simply can’t understand how any of that will occur today.

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

I truly believe that whoever feels the most confident is usually the one to win.