She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Begin to invest your time into research and studies about how you could impact your world positively because only through the proper conversion of time could you become great.

Use your body language and posture to project confidence. Shift your physiology into a more powerful pose or position and your mindset will follow.

Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.

I think I was the beneficiary of a little bit of charity.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.