What is wrong about me loving you, anyway? You make me better. You make me feel special. You make me feel like I can do anything.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

Give away all your love and become the love, and love never dies.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

The thing is, all memory is fiction.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

Everything can be borne except contempt.