Eleanora Duse

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy rejoice for your soul is alive.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow - that great teacher.