Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

"He picks up his dates in a van? No wonder he‘s such a hit with the ladies." - Jace about Simon

I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

Music is the fragrance of the universe.

Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

I'm ready for that adrenaline rush...with you.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.