If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.

In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.