The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don’t achieve that in reality.

If we are with someone out of choice, we should act accordingly, and choose to communicate rather than deteriorate.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.