It's more important to be free than to be happy.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.

Unrequited love's a bore.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

Guys do ridiculous things for love." Adrian reached into his pocket and held up a pack of cigarettes. "Do you know how badly I want one of these right now? Yet I suffer, Rose. All for you.