Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.