Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

I have never seen genius without a touch of madness… and vice versa.

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Man is slow because he hesitates