If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.