“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

I love how British guys dress for the cold.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Your love is the fuel to my soul.

A hello from you can still bring me to my knees, set me free. More than any goodbye ever could.

There is no longer him in her words or heart or mind, finally she is only hers.

The more that I learn I have found poetry to be less about love and more about survival.