"It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive."
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"Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through."
"It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far."
"Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him."
"Follow the rules or follow the fools."
"There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words."
"You'll never be greater than yourself."
"Ordinary people have extraordinary love."
"Age doesn't make a man."
"Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all."
"If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again."
"With few words, one can speak the truth."
"If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly."
"Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death."
"All things must pass, all things must pass away."
"Never met a wise man, if so its a woman."
"The heart says what only the heart knows."
"When you have everything, you have everything to lose."
"Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it."
"When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening."
"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."