No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.

All writing is a process of elimination.

Failure is never a reason not to try again.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation.""These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell.

Enemies may unite to eliminate a common threat, but never without a wary eye fixed on their ally.

Wherever I go, I run into myself.

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

I would not let my children act when they are young!

I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.

For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.

If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.