Pain, thou art not an evil

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.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Feel the love, be the love, to spread the love.

Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory.

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.