There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

Ours was not one of those nice, quaintly old-fashioned mobile homes that senior citizens putter around in. We lived in the beat-up tin can of clichéd poverty.

All our geese are swans.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

As Seth's apprentice, I've learned wisdom of which you've never dreamed.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.