“A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.”

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

The devil is compromise.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.

Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Why are you forever on my mind? Even though I’m the one you left behind.

I am the leaves that blow in the wind untethered and free.

How about leaving all the ifs and buts behind?

Love her but leave her wild.

When will the leaves begin to change in this body of mine?

My feet are not rooted in the ground I am able to leave the familiar places I have known I am strong enough to grow.

You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?