“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

You are alone with everything you love.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

A God-intoxicated man.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

Well I’m the Prince and I’m sort of slaying a dragon – which is something I’ve never done before, obviously.

There’s a hero, If you look inside your heart.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle…she fails in the end but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

You don’t have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

There’s a hero if you look inside your heart. You don’t have to be afraid of what you are.