The hourglass runs low.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

Your shield must surpass your weaponry.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.

I never really look back. I just approach life (taking) it one day at a time. I'm just really grateful.

When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.