I regret how much I believed in the future.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Those of us with Big Hearts are like Big Banks, we are too Big to fail!

The faster you go the more chance there is of stubbing your toe but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.