There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

Even God cannot change the past.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.

Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.

What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.