Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

The heart feels, the head compares.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

I’m honored if I can inspire somebody else.

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.