Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Funniness is genetic.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

What made you immortal? (Nick) Really good DNA. (Acheron)

Nonfiction is never going to die.

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?