Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

All that counts in life is intention.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.