…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.