Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.

Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.