Love is desire for knowledge.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

I feel like I'm a professional. I've been a professional for a number of years. I'm a businesswoman and a tax lawyer and a professional and so that's how I treat other people.

I played with the best conductors of the world.