She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

Be what you yearn to be, and stop living for false ideals.

Don’t harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it…eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.