When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, " Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Challenges mean opportunities as well.

When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything I'm missing and you'll tell me you're in love with someone else.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.