The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.
Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.
Expect nothing and life will be velvet.
I've never been somebody who blew up overnight, I've never been somebody who everyone talked about all at once, but I've had this really cool slow build.
I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.
The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other streaming into their neighbourhood and don't always know where to lay their foundations in a world on the move.
A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.