If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they're still oppressed.

Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you.

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

The key factor in my strategy is longevity.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.