She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.

Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.

The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.

It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

When my title was taken away boxing died.

I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.