And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.