The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.