“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Maybe not this year or the next but one day they’d end up married. In this lifetime and every one after it. Just knowing that I’d get to watch them find each other and fall in love in every life made me smile.

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other’s destiny.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.

You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime.

We are all born free and spend a lifetime becoming slaves to our own false truths.

All it takes is a moment to fall in love with somebody for a lifetime.