Everyone needs help from everyone else.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

When you provide things for free to meet their needs and help them discover their skills, they automatically become your family

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

I don't say this to hurt you, love." The endearment slipped out without me even thinking about it.(...)"Say it again, " he said. "Call me your love.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.