Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..

You know, how I deal with all my problems in a daily life, I'm tweeting shit.

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.

"Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?