“The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.”

When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.

She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.

The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis.

It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.