He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So they are on a different wavelength.

Donald Trump said he still wants to look more closely at Obama's birth certificate to make sure that it's real. Incidentally, President Obama said the same exact thing about Donald Trump's hair.

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

I feel quite confident there will never be a plane on the face of the Earth with my name on it.

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.