"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."
"The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything."
"Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be."
"Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest."
