I would like to say that your beauty made it difficult to breathe.

You are not my dream girl.You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine.

I would like to care more about you than about my feelings for you.

Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Even if the world is cruel, even if all I have is loneliness, I’ll still live with everything I’ve got. Even if this emotion is all I have, I’ll keep struggling.

I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

Guard your children's free time - from you.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

Mathematics should be fun.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.