The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire for revenge, a strange revenge.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

Our age has need of violence, " he writes. And he is violence.

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.