Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.

Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.

She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.