“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”

“Were young, were not monsters, no fools: well conquer happiness for ourselves.”

“Whereas I think: Im lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I dont occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period...”

“That's what children are forthat their parents may not be bored.”

“The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.”

“Its strange how things happen in life: you live with someone for a long time, you are on the best of terms, yet you never once speak to them frankly and from the heart; with someone else, youve har...”

“True Leadership is having multiple generations working together successfully and passionately to create significance.”

“A seed houses generation of seeds and can also feed generations of man.”

“Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.”

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the cove...”

“I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in p...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”