Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

I can’t cure anyone. I can’t guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing.

Wherever there is ‘faith’ without regeneration it has to be that the uncured enmity of the natural man to spiritual things remains.

I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.

First impressions never have a second chance.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

There is no such thing in life as normal.

I did not criticize the Central Bank's position.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.