“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game”

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another”

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed”

“Being prepared means much, being able to wait means more, but to make use of the right moment means everything”