Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.

If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry.

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill

Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I knew I was going to be a cellular biologist whose research would focus on scrutinizing every nuance of the cell's ultrastructure to gain insights into the secrets of cellular life.

What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

Only the soul that loves is happy