God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.