Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!

When youre in that scene, you really wonder if this is all youre ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.