I want to seize fate by the throat.
Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.
My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.
Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.