Who wants to pluck roses must love their thorns.

Those who want to power know no mercy.

You can rely on a stick, but not on a faithless friend.

Follow your heart and success will be your unimpressive shadow.

The Philosopher's Stone was called Silence.

Life is often a Labyrinth of Passions without exit.

A kiss is the sledgehammer that breaks the ice in you.

True love is to jump over your own shadow.

Love is the oxygen of the heart.

In your eyes I can see my heart.

Love is to feel your breath.

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.

I love kale. I bake it. I sauté it. I juice it. I massage it. I want other people to join the cult-of- kale.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.