But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Man thinks, God directs.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.

I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.