“You may need to change your dreams.”

“Nobody can change who you are, except for you.”

“We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was”

“It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.”

“I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?”

“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”

“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." ...”