but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

There is always something left to love.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through, ’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.

I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things.

I love smarta**es when it's stuff I agree with.