“She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didnt feel like she had power over the most important thing of allher own heart.”

“Ive always thought that was the lamest argumentthat we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so o...”

“But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if youve worked for it, or if you know you can lose it. How are you going to make the inhabitants of your little heaven ...”

“I am the god of dreams, but not even I would dream of speaking for Hades, Morpheus replied with a mischievous look in his eyes. But if I had to guess, I would say its because he knows how destructi...”

“She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.”

“But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didnt know what it was like not to have what they need?”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”

“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart”

“Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”

“I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet ...”

“The relationship between truth and reason:"Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!”

“I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul”