Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me.

She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?

When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.