Women who got married got screwed.

Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it--second chances when all hope was lost.

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.

If you can, judge less and observe more.

Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.

So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no.

What was it, she wondered, that made some people give up and others fight harder? Where was her fight? She was out.

Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.

Here's what Mike knew about kids: They did stupid stuff. Pretty much all of them.

Learning is crucial if you want to remain special and material

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

I am a unique boutique product, I'm not for everybody.

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!