“If you wished to be loved, love.”

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”

“For greed all nature is too little.”

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“From the moment you realize, I am the most worthless person in this world; you become valuable.”

“No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is vyavasthit [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So dont tell anyone, you did wrong...”

“To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?”