Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Sorrow can be a bully.

If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day!

Ideas are not immaculately conceived.

What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?

A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

Some bridges are so beautiful that we wish them to be our own home!

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.