Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end.

Never delegate. Always empower.

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.