I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?