Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

The hourglass runs low.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Hope of gain lessens pain.

I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

When it comes to being a good lover, a guy has to ask a girl what she wants and be willing to give it to her.

If I was a mechanic and someone called me and said their car would not start, I would say, "Hey - maybe a killer is after you!"

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.