Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone?

A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.