Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.