“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.

All that destiny in those wild eyes, and so much passion in that wild heart.

My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

I always make sure my lashes look cute.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.