Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

Beauty is the soul striving to make itself visible.

Beauty is the crystallization of the life and power to which everything is a means.

Beauty is a thing that lives with kindness.

The Compliment is never as good as an insult in this: with compliments, you never know if it's true. With insults, it always comes from the heart.

A Compliment is the toughest thing to take gracefully.

A Compliment is always appreciated — nobody has ever been bored by someone paying them a compliment.

A Compliment is a gift which no person is so poor that he cannot give.

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Fear is many-eyed.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Fear is the mother of superstition.

Freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

Freedom is having the choice as to which prison he will live his life in.

Freedom is not the goal of history, but the material with which it works.