Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Work is love made visible.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- The 'Hegemon-King of Western Chu' whose raw military genius made him the most feared commander of ancient China's civil wars

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

Work is love made visible.

-- Kahlil Gibran

To love is simply to be always beside that person.

-- Shusaku Endo