Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.

Let's give the historians something to write about

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.