"I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time."

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed."

"In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity."

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."