Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.