“A man may fight the greatest enemy, take the longest journey, survive the most grievous wound -- and still be helpless in the hands of the woman he loves.”

“The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.”

“You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!”

“Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.”

“Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire. It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul.”

“The greatest relevancy can become irrelevant in the space of a heartbeat.”

“My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.”