Gabriele D'Annunzio

"Kindness is the power of those who have transcended weakness."

"The body is a temple; we decide what god to worship within it."

"History is written by those with the courage to act."

"Literature is the immortal voice of humanity across the abyss of time."

"War teaches us what we are made of, whether we wish to know or not."

"Health is the wealth that the wealthy often squander."

"The crowd is the enemy of greatness; embrace your solitude."

"To persevere is to write your name upon eternity."

"Gratitude is the nectar that sweetens the bitter draught of life."

"Leadership is the art of making others believe in themselves."

"Work is the forge upon which character is shaped."

"The impossible is merely the untried."

"Hope is the light we carry through the darkest nights."

"Friendship is the mirror in which we see our best selves."

"Family is the soil from which we grow, for better or worse."

"Death is the final punctuation mark on our sentence of life."

"Peace is not the absence of struggle, but the mastery of it."

"To understand beauty is to understand the divine."

"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"I am the living proof that we can do whatever we want."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel a responsibility for the acts and omissions of other people."

"The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural desire to fly."

"I sing the superiority of the strong who dare to challenge convention."

"Beauty is not something that can be explained or rationalized—it must be felt."

"To live is to burn—everything else is merely existing."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes."

"Art is not decoration for your living room. Art is war."

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."