To succeed, you must first believe you can.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.