The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

I've failed over and over but I get back up stronger, better, and bolder. It's the only way I know and want to live.

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.

In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel.

If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.