“Above all things, reverence yourself.”

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

My greatest act of self love was knowing when to walk away.

I either want a love like poetry or no love at all.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.

You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

People say I’m too skinny, but if I gain a little weight, they say I look chubby. You can’t please everyone. As long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters.