Henrik Ibsen

"Faith is not certainty but the willingness to act despite doubt."

"A leader serves before commanding."

"Work is the price we pay for meaning."

"Dreams are the rehearsals for the life we will live."

"The greatest victory is to conquer oneself."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's ear drums from bursting, but anything further than this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."

"People who are happy are never boring."

"It is not by the absolute strength of any one man, but by the tendency of the age, that things in this world are governed and directed onwards."

"Youth will always spring up in this world as long as there is any such thing as motherhood; it is the eternal spirit of truth and beauty."

"The prison-house of your selfishness and falsehood can only be opened from within."

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

"You cannot imagine what a completely narrow, restricted, wall-in-sort of life a man leads in his private concerns."

"The measure of your real wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."

"Mother, I believe that we are all on the wrong track when we always imagine that it is the exceptional man that does things."

"It is precisely the men of ability who are most jealous of any disturbance of the peace."

"Practically everyone now does come somewhere in the middle."

"I must stand entirely alone if I am to know myself and my capabilities."

"The stronger one is, the more alone one is."

"Illusions are the most precious and essential things of all."

"An enemy who is generous is more to be feared than a whole army of the malicious."

"The longer I live the more convinced I become that this world is hell, and that the people in it are all more or less lunatics."

"A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth."

"What is important is that one can depend upon finding things in their places."

"What should we women be without our men to advise us, to guide us, to sustain us in the struggle?"

"Then where is the extraordinary thing you promise me?"

"If you let people define you by your past, you will always be a prisoner of it."

"The greatest strength lies not in muscles but in moral courage."

"The state must fall. That is evolution."

"Youth will always cry out in the end."