“If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.”

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”

“The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty.”

“I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world. The writing's world.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

“On my honor, I will do my bestTo do my duty To God and my country”