I doubted myself for a long time... I'm comfortable not using my vision. I weave around my problems.

The Philippines is where the love is.

When a window closes another one opens

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.