...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together.

Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.

Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.

If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.

They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.

I think people believe what they want to believe.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Never invest in ideas, only in people!

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.