“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Water is the driving force in nature.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Life without love, is no life at all.

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

He who thinks little errs much.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.