Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.