In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

Women love only those whom they do not know!

We almost always forgive those we understand.

What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple - without a divinity!

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

A beautiful idea can give you immortality—not success or money.

The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise....

Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Anybody can be hurt. This is boxing.

To innovate is not to reform.

But you're so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it.