Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.

We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.

We were built differently. Locate your own uniqueness

Because my weakness has always been her, it would always be her.

Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind.

They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.

When I warm up now though—especially on center court—there is usually music playing, so I don't really mess with music.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

I suppose sometimes it takes getting lost to enjoy the joy of being found