“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. ”

“Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.”

“To test a man, determine how much it takes to make him lie.”

“Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.”

“God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.”

“Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.”

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didnt understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can...”

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”