“If God gives me a long life and allows me to carry out my task, then Brussels will become a city of exceptional category.”

“I stand on the threshold of new missions and life is making new demands upon me. No matter what further tasks I shall be carrying out, it is perfectly clear to me that the complete liberation of the working woman and the creation of the foundation of a new sexual morality will always remain the highest aim of my activity, and of my life.”

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”

“All that is Life in me urges me to give up God.”

“To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.”

“Death stares at me/ Death pushes me forward/ Attracts me onwards/ And carries me on/ And that is my life!”

“If one perpetually thinks of me, and makes me his sole refuge, I become his debtor and will give my life to save him.”

“I have travelled from one end of England to another, and as yet could find very few that could define unto me the object of their worship, or give me a character what that God is, so much professed by them; yet notwithstanding I could come into no city, town, nor village, but there I heard the name God under one form or another, worshipped that for God, which I had experience was no God: So that in the period of my pilgrimage, I concluded there was gods many, and lords many, although to me but one God: Therefore at my return, I was carried out by God to hold forth to the creature, the God yesterday, to day, and for ever.”

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

“It is education that has altered my life. Carried me far.”