No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
It's never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it's never too late to find it.
Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.
Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take.
That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.
You got one life, never use it just to breathe.
Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.
They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.
The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.