When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Every second is of infinite value.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks