When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!

Start doing what you want to do, and everything else will be revealed to you.

Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe.

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.