He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

When the mind is free, magic happens.

Burning bridges is much easier than making them and bridges take you places!

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You get nothing but the truth from me.