Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

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?

I finally wentwhere everyone goesand I realizedI wasnevermissingout.

A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return.

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

If you can't laugh at yourself or take any type of criticism or comment about yourself, I think it's more of a reflection of you.

I absolutely trust Hillary Clinton to stand strong on trade agreements.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.