Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

To see her is to be seduced by her.

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

Diversification is your buddy.

We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.

Lyrics are tough for me and I never feel like they're quite done.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.