"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."

"When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"Marriage as a long conversation. When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is …"