Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Tact is good taste in action.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

I will never give up on my dreams. I have the patient to wait and work hard for its fulfillment.

Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.

He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands." "Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it, " she suggested.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

Love is the pass-key to the heart.