I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

The value of life depends on the amount of pure love that you are giving away.

The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah.

It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

We going to have the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan, we're going to eliminate job-killing regulations which are a disaster, we are going to defend religious liberty.

It is you who makes me see what I really am.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.

I said all along that God is in control.