God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

I love everything about you that hurts.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.