Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.

When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

It’s cool to be kind. It’s cool to be weird. It’s cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.