Henrik Ibsen

"One must work. All those people who say one cannot live by art, by poetry, they are wrong."

"When you're sixty, you're already too old to change your mind."

"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."

"The sun is rising. The sun always rises."

"Achievement comes through commitment, not chance."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every quiver they make."

"Literary criticism is really only a form of gossip elevated."

"Every man has some calling in life which he is fitted for, and the great work of life seems to be to find that calling and do it."

"The old order must crumble before the new can flourish."

"Absolute certainty is not demanded of us; only that we do our best."

"What matters is not the external facts of a man's life but the inner truth of his character."

"The foundation of all science is the foundation of all life, and that is the love of truth."

"Beauty dwells in truth; truth dwells in beauty."

"Human nature is such that we must have reasons for thinking and acting."

"My task has been to translate human nature into a higher key."

"The child carries within him the fate of his future."

"To die nobly is not the work of a moment, but of a whole life."

"A lonely man is a suspect man. Loneliness is a form of eccentricity."

"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"The masses will never understand progress."

"Confidence is the first step on the road to success."

"All growth depends upon activity; there is no development physically or intellectually without effort."

"Freedom means choice, and choice means responsibility."

"The great secret is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

"In any moral struggle, there are always sheriffs and criminals; I prefer to stand with the criminals."

"Faith is the bridge between reason and the unknown."

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

"We cannot forget our past; we can only learn from it."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind simultaneously."

"One should respect and tolerate as well as love."