Listen if you want to be heard

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Dream is not that you see in the sleep; dream is that does not allow you to sleep.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.