The only thing I was any good at was music.
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.
Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.