Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Courage is to act on your beliefs or opinions especially in spite of criticism.Not to act on someones idea of what your courage should be....

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.

I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

If you want to give an advice to someone, you must first be somebody.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

The next few years is really going to be focused on shoes.