The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart.

You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.

What is delayed is not lost.

I must have true love or nothing.

Love exalts as much as glory does.

I could dispense with life sooner than with your love.

When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right.

You have to first dream and take the first action towards realising the dream, then all other resources will be attracted to you for the achievement of the dream.

Keep your focus laser-locked on what you want to create in your life.

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

I don't care about preaching to the converted.