I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Some things you sentence yourself to life for.

Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.

Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.