Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

God is always the last resource.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.