I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.

Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert.

Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.

Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

I have emotional needs that I didn't know I had, and I have physical needs that I didn't know weren't really needs.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.