"Tell Wind and Fire where to stop but don't tell me."

"Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

"Accidents will occur in the best regulated families."

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper."

"Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"When I was a child, my mom told me: 'If you want to be a soldier, you'll become a general. If you want to be a monk, you'll become pope' I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso."

"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

"To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce."

"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."