I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.