“So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.”
“You may come back as soon as your senses have returned.”
“And, therefore, hold your head high, Herr Stiefel!——Such a crisis as this comes to all of us and will soon be surmounted. If all of us had recourse to dagger or poison in such cases, there would soon be no men left in the world.”
“You have the power to make your dreams come true so reach for them and don't accept anything less.”
“When it comes to having your manuscript edited, the truth will set you free; just as soon as you rewrite the whole thing.”
“I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about our ways of observing. I see the signs of her teaching in you. Our test is crisis and observation.”