“Seduction and passion are simply life longing for life”

“To give love to one who needs it is a far greater pleasure than to receive it.”

“A true lover must know how to receive as well as to give.”

“Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?”

“Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.”

“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as fragile as a flower.”

“If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.”