We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

I've always thought that men are more romantic than woman.

Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It’s an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.