You can only fail to pick the Castellan's pocket once

(Da) "Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you."(Later) "Sorry, Son, I missed that, " Ma said. "Ignoring you can be a full-time job.

Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.

Evidence is the debris of a careless mind.

Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.

The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.

I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.