Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.

The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

What resonates with people is that it feels like you actually are thinking of them.