One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.

Neve, you're wicked, " he groaned as she rocked up against him even harder. "I hope that's not a problem for you, " she panted.

I believe in this march, You will still love me much, God

The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.