Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

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 delivery that makes the orators success.