Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.