Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

I'd rather be broken than wasted.