The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

The will of man is his happiness.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

His saying was: live and let live.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

God helps the brave.

They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

Intention and awareness are the two tools that enable us to create anything our heart desires from the universe.

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.