Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Work is love made visible.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

The supreme elegance is to be a good man.

-- Victor Hugo

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

-- William Shakespeare

I loved you: love perhaps has not yet faded entirely from my soul.

-- Alexander Pushkin

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu