"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"There are no gains without pains"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man"

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome"

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that"

"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight"

"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too"