Failure to love is almost like murder.

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?

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

Don't wait for a miracle. Make one happen.

Life Without Love Like Body without Soul

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

I love you as I do all - not at all.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.