When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.

If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.