Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

I am troubled, immeasurablyby your eyes. I am struck by the featherof your soft reply.The sound of glassspeaks quick, disdainand concealswhat your eyes fightto explain.

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

I have a past, okay? And you really don't want to get involved with it.''Everybody's got a past, ' he said. 'That doesn't mean you can't have a future.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

I do the best with what exists.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community