Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf