Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

Just knowing that the world is round Here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? Is this real or am I dreaming?

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.