Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

There are no days more full than those we go back to.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

Everything is so soft here, ' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know

You’re not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

As an athlete you've got to watch your hydration and your nutrition, and use the right kinds of fuel to help you perform your best.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Few know how to be old.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God