They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

I'm blessed when someone who I loved and trusted dropped me off, because I have a good choice to think and great lesson to learn

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.