“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”

“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”

“We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.”

“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”

“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”

“She didn't deserve me. She deserved a hell of a lot better than me, but so help me, I wasn't good enough of a man to just let her go.”

“Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim.”

“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”

“Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.”