Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.