Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.

You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

You can't really explain to anyone the experience onset, you actually have to see it to understand what we're all going through. Some days we can be on set 15 - 17 hrs. Plus then there's training.

The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

Those who start later, tend to achieve greater

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.