Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

Celebrate Christmas in your own way, among those you love and even if - you are alone.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.