“Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.”

“Faith is the ability to endure.”

“Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.”

“We are not strangers. Its a lack of trust that keeps us separated.”

“Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.”

“The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.”

“Say youll marry me when I come back or, before God, I wont go. Ill stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so youll have...”

“He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.”

“The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive ...”

“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...”

“With each embrace, I poured my soul into his, till his and mine were the same.”

“The atmosphere of a date is everything.”

“You will regret the moments you didn't let love in a hell of a lot more than the moments you did.”