Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

I have a conflict of interest in environmental conservation.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.