Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.

Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.

Realism and art cannot live together.

Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.

Make sure you put quality into every practice swing.

And you out there: Aren’t you somehow right here with me?

- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.

I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.

Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.