...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

That which yields is not always weak.

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

When beauty is seen through the windows of the soul - rainbows appear and everything is magical. It feels simply divine.

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. Theyve changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!

We all have trials and tribulations and that shows who we are as a person.