There is no Death! What seems so is transition.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.