... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.

... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn't exist.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.

Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.