sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

Desire filters toxins through my system at the sight and I lower again, shoving her against the padded wall to snake my tongue over the elixir of pain.

A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.

Almes never make poore.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good, the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.