And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

Loneliness feels like prison.

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.

That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

If the true nature of everything isn't extraordinary, then God would be ordinary.

Your purpose is the only thing you should make your obsession.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

How our government works... it doesn't.

I like magazines. I love to look at a magazine. But the magazines have got to get better. Everything pushes someone else to get better. So the Internet pushes the magazines.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.