In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.

Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form.

There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.