"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts,that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."
"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."
"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."
"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."
"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
