Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

A person who won’t do it has no advantage over someone who can’t do it.

A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.