I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.