Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy.

Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen