Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.

We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

I think we explored the further reaches of for better or for worse than some other married couples.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.