“What a strange creature is a laughing fool,As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.”

“O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.”

“Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other.”

“Take it for words. O womans poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue!”

“Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.”

“Fortunes a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.”

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”

“You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.”

“I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.I shone because I thought you loved me...”

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”