Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?