The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.