What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it.

I never aspired to be the PM...Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

You can only stay connected if you feel connected.