The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.
-Laurence Binyon
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
A spring of infinite power is coiled up and is inside this little body and that spring is spreading itself.