I am climbing a difficult road; but the 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.

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.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.