“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.”

“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”

“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”

“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”

“The more things change, the more they are the same.”

“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”

“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”

“There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair”

“A vampire is like a Rose. They are beautiful, yet harmful.”

“Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”