That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

He had never actually said what he hunted, only that he enjoyed it.

Being rejected by someone you knew you never stood a chance with is like pouring salt on a wound that already has salt in it. It preserves the hurt.

People expect what they expect.. They never realize the possibility of surprise beyond expectations..!

A book for everyone concerned about our common future.

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.

It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the pope.

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

You’re monopolizing the bride,” Emmett said, coming up behind Edward’s shoulder. “Let me dance with my little sister. This could be my last chance to make her blush.