“What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.”

“Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.”

“Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”

“What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?”

“A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.”

“We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.”