It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

He lies down next to me.He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/''Well, don't die, ' I say, "we just met.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

We cannot fully heal if we cannot experience gratitude on a daily basis.

Gratitude is the key for the door of abundance.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.