“Some days I'm to sip you. Some days I'm to be drowned.”

“It's time to make important noise.”

“Eating your own heart simply to keep the strangers from tasting: a suicide.”

“Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.”

“They tended to look at his lips, for his transient gaze was dizzying, though the mouth, you see, the mouth was also a danger, for the teeth would do the unraveling.”

“Reinvention is no rushed religion.”

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

“The strongest bonds are of the heart.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”