Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

Women love only those whom they do not know!

We almost always forgive those we understand.

What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple - without a divinity!

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

The smell rewards the care.