There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.