“Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

We almost always forgive those we understand.

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

Happiness comes the way the wind blows.

I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.

For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?

And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.

We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.

The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

To imagine that “God moves in mysterious ways” is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

One way or another we all work for our vice.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.