I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

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.

Don't get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

You plus nothing equals everything.