All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!