You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

For life, too, is only an instant, Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

I don't have a garden full of flowers.I have a garden full of love.

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

My wretched dragon is perplexed.