"No one plants rosebushes for the thorns."

"Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures."

"The void can only be filled with love."

"Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it."

"Cynicism springs from disappointments in love."

"Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction."

"Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love."

"Trust opens the door that pain had sealed shut."

"Take a wrong turn. Get lost in something you love."

"Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language."

"Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow."

"There is no need to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years."

"What can be achieved with suffering can be achieved without it."

"When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not."

"The wise oyster stays in its shell."

"A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us."

"My life is my book, but I can't read it."

"What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly."

"We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual."

"The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality."

"What is true today may be false tomorrow, and true again the day after tomorrow."

"Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity."

"Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it."

"Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it."

"When you're young, you long for things that don't exist; and when you're old, you're sad because you never found them."

"The head follows the feet. We act first and find reasons later."

"The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions."

"Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads."

"I don't think about how to live my life. I just live it."

"Struggle is less effective than doing nothing."

"Love is a wild child, always at odds with society."

"Everybody calls me "Marty." I never know what to call myself."

"Silence stands between the trees, waiting for the wind's roar."

"Something or someone is always waving goodbye."

"Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable."

"Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side."

"Expectations have no effect on the harvest."

"Trust the one with experience, not the one with ideas."

"The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever."

"To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself."

"The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases."

"When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy."

"May your wants be few and your pleasures many."

"Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours."

"Men are always ready to fight, it's tenderness that scares them."

"Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns."

"The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching."

"Everyone I meet wants to give me directions, but I'm not lost."

"There are no safe voyages and no safe ports."

"What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?"