People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds..

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness..

One should never condemn what one cannot understand..

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness..

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason..

People never think about words, they only feel them..

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness..

You can only understand the present age when it is past..

Sadness is so ungrateful..

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but wit….

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness..

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures..

Persecution matures young rebels..

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings..

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear..

The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine doe….

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hur….

It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal..

These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of somet….

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?.

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal..