... all comparisons injure.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

Kafka wrote the great line: "my education has damaged me in ways I do not even know." And that's always been a signature motto for me.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.