As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.

The Jewish women like Bethany Mandel fare the worst, because they are getting both antisemitic stuff and anti-woman stuff.

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.