You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.

We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action.

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?