History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.