I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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.

Imagination is divine. Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

Darling, you’re perfect.

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.