You trample on hearts as if they're grapes and you're making wine.

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

Adversities define what you're made of. Success is you're reward for overcoming them

Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.

I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

Strength conquers some, might conquers many, power conquers numerous, but love conquers all.

And what's a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpillar drest.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.