Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.

It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.

There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.

There is no honor in cruelty.

If you don't REALLY miss someone, it's because you never REALLY connected very deeply with them.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.

I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

I want nothing from love, in short, but love.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!