What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.

There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.

I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

The object of your desire is not an object.

In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

I'm making people that happy. How cool is that? That's my job.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.