Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Oh, how we could blossom if we didn't have to fight to the death to merely exist!

It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

We need to broaden the horizon of our faith, putting more difficult tasks in front of us each time

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.

My heart has been resuscitated as a result of becoming a mom.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.