I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
Be kind, aim for my heart.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Let us live while we live.
You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.