“all success cloaks a surrender”

“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”

“All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.”

“Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass.”

“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.”

“The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.”

“Das Glück besteht darin, zu leben wie alle Welt und doch wie kein anderer zu sein.”