I can hear those glances that you think are silent.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’ll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!

I may not know why, but I do know why not and this is where I stand.

Like ships men flounder time and time again.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

Music is a fundamental human right

Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.