She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Everything happens for a reason.

Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!

Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?

You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving it to the president."

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Michael Jordan makes you bring your game to another level. That's why I loved competing against him.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.