I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses.

You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.

I'm not a cruel man. I mean, technically I'm not a man at all.

Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness.

Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.

Your attitude toward the word of God is your attitude toward Jesus (Ps 37:4).

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.

... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.