Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind.

Even at the Gallagher Academy, they don't teach you to break somebody's heart.

Quickly, Ian learned the danger of holding her. Once he allowed his arm around her, letting her go was nearly impossible.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that.

The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

Families, like individuals, are unique.

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.