There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change