We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.

Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the basement of this world.

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!

But it always came back to anger.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.