Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If we know who we are and have gone through a process of self-identification in accordance with the creator’s plan, we will no longer undervalue ourselves or be afraid

The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!

Literature is a virus.

An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

Gymnastics is so complex.

I'm showing the boss what I can do. I was bought as a striker and I always believe I am a striker.