We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.

I’m a Texas girl, with a California soul.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives

Every day is not perfect.

Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

I try to get back to Australia as much as possible.

Ive known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.