Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Where's the heart?" - Dimitri Belikov

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.