Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both.

For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

Adrian, you're a genius.