He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

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?

Never reward a solder for doing whats expected

For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others.

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

I fired Mike Flynn because of what he said to Mike Pence, very simple. Mike was doing his job, calling countries and his counterparts, so it certainly would have been ok with me if he did it.

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.