...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

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.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

The Holy Spirit was not sent so we can have bless ups in our churches but so the world can be changed.

The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more