The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that.

He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.

One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.

We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.

Sometimes it's easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing.

At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

It's strange how quickly the significance of of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

What colors are the eyes of Anubis?" "Brown...Duh.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.