The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”“What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important.

The father of confederation is deadlock.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself.

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?