Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

True love stories never have endings.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

Not every relationship is meant to last. Some are there to create an impact on your life. Relationships that last three months are just as important as ones that last a lifetime.

Remember seeker, our earthly perceptions of reality are just an illusion.

the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.