And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

She shouldn't leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.