Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

You don't disrupt genius at work.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

I have never done jewelry before so, of course, I had an idea in mind, but I needed it to be feasible and I don't really know about the materials, like what's possible, what's not possible.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.