I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life.

Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...

The relentlessness with which these women tried to repair their relationships was foreign to me

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

I'm very fortunate to have the support of the people around me, I feel happy because my wife helps me and people who are close.

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.