Handfuls of frosty water can make almost anyone smile, but it cannot make them forget.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Lula, " I said, "do you ever think about getting married?"I guess I do. Doesn't everybody?"You have to let your husband kiss you once you're married. And you have to kiss him

I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa’s glory.

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.