To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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.

If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.

Power is not found in muscles

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.