That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.