The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Do not allow me to forget you

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

children need calm—they’re artists

The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

The only competition that matters the most, is competing to become better than your best old self.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.