Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

No one can or will ever feel your pain as much as you. Forgive yourself for the past, seize the gift of the present moment.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

If the word 'integration' means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

Leaders lead by virtue of who they are.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total. (on 40-year old Romario)

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

The Universe has a pulse and rhythm of its own, and it wants to carry you with it-so if you dance with Spirit, just remember to let it lead.