You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

They say everything in the world is good for something.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

We’re products of our choices.