When someone shows you who they are believe them

Humans are naturally elusioned in discrimination

He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.

Travel is an urge best cultivated from within.

Approach a trip as a chance to collect unique experiences, not passport stamps, postcards and snapshots in front of famous monuments.

Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat

The known universe always feels easier even when it's miserable.

She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn’t really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn’t going to be a normal relationship.

True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.

The last time you were happy about nothing

No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.

Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.

Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.