I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

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.

Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.

When you do things with the power of passion and power of love, you create destructive beauty.

Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.