When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

I think the main thing over time is that you gain confidence and are able to tell your story better and stronger.

My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.