When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

Friends are the family that you choose.

Good things come to those who wait.

You can never have too much money.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who's late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

Many people want to live in an alternate world. As a writer, it’s my job to put them there.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

I'm not a pretty goalie and I don't ever want to be called one, to tell you the truth.

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.