The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

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.

Action is only taken when one needs change. Change happens when action is needed to make a positive impact. Ones reaction to change is what determines the outcome.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

Why is the place where I want to be so often so far from where I am?

You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.