“Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world ...”

“Why do you haunt me? You, like a tattoo on my tongue, like the bay leaf at the bottom of every pan. You who sprawled out beside me and sang my horoscope to a Schubert symphony, something about trav...”

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

“The beautiful affair of sun, sky and the sea brings a perfect moment of love, peace and joy”

“We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another.”

“Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?”

“What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?”

“You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.”

“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." ...”