“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's eve...”

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”

“No! I don't want to speak of that! But I'm going to. I want you to hear. I want you to know what's in store for you. There will be days when you'll look at your hands and you'll want to take someth...”

“I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception...”

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

“Thats the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. Absolutely everybody gets a little something.”

“They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for there are no things, in all creation, more beautiful, more rare than the so very disciplined and f...”

“Im not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, its not really pain.”

“The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise...”

“Hes not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-handers delusionprestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded.”

“Don't Run For Success, Practice Perfection.”

“Spontaneity is great when the opportunity is there, but what I'm really saying is you need to trust yourself. Instead of checking and rechecking your camera and the lighting and everything else, ju...”

“What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight.”