Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.