"At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent."

"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.