The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Begin to lay hold of every minute of your life and convert it into something of value to benefit the world. Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.

Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.

The book didn't want to be copied?I should introduce it to the house that doesn't want any occupants.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND THANK EVERYONEWHO TRIES TO MAKEA DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVESOF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.