You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.