Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.

There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

As you are, you see everything else.

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.