... and still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

Little rabbits have big ears.

Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.

You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time.

It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.

There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?

Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.

Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

No one can have it all, at the same time. I've never seen that.