Well, have you even tried again? You can’t just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience

A stream cannot rise higher than its source.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.

Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

You can't stop the White Mamba! You can only hope to contain him!

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds