My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.

There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.

Kindness is the best prayer

‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

Thats the thing about better. You cant own it. You can only pursue it. Stalk it. But once youve tasted it, better is never truly beyond your reach.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.