“Luck, I believe, is where preparation meets opportunity.”

“Our Peter Pan generation is unhappy. All our lives, we want to grow upto be treated like adults, to have freedom to choose. Then we get here and it turns out being an adult sucks. We pay the bills ...”

“Grades are still important, but they are not the most important things. As clichd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for ...”

“And I still dont know what I would do next. I still dont know how to become an adult. But I know for sure that my parents would be proud of me, proud of their three daughters, no matter what path w...”

“One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting t...”

“The grass is greener on the other side, but often this is just an illusion. Most probably, everyone is as unhappy as you.”

“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”

“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”

“I compete every moment, and my competition is only with myself.”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”