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

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

“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”

“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”

“Analytic therapy is thus a form of re-education; Freud specifically called it that. It is re-education so far as it eliminates those symptoms through which the patient has tried, mistakenly, to resolve the contradictions in his life.”

“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”

“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

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

“By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”