It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

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.

Pray to God, pretending as God is only yours.

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

A woman in love is helpless.

What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

Nothing that passes between us will ever be wrong. Come back to me.

I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.