I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'...

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

I get influenced by stuff that isn't even music.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

I am as successful as I make up my mind to be

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.