First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I will not be threatened. Do you understand me?’ He leaned closer again, his lips less than a couple of inches from hers. ‘Now try saying it without trembling.

I have been hurt so bad but I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.

The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine].

I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

The more you give, the better you become.

We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.