Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Death's but one more to-morrow.

God already knew the ones who would be saved, even before their birth

Happiness will be there if you want to be happy.

Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.