...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.

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.

Knowledge alone benefits no one unless the person acquiring it does something with it. And great ideas are worthless unless they are implemented.

Replace the negative traits of your character by the traits you want to have

The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.