Haste is a poor counselor

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.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

A small temptation can stop a great glory and turn great joy into a great sorrow

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.