There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

Returning to my dreams was like returning to home after a long time of being away - everything was exactly the same as you left it, except infinitely better.

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.