Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.