What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Desires are our way and Peace is God's Way

How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted.

As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet.

Knowledge is true opinion.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.