Turns out we’re stronger in reality than in our imagination. We survive hardships and losses we never thought we could.
A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.
If I had to give the young any advice, it would be this: Don’t believe in tomorrow.
A woman who needs romantic favors to feel loved will never feel loved.
When you think about something you give it an importance it doesn’t have.
Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.
I love bad dreams. They remind me of the goodness of life.
Every pundit who exhorts you to “think for yourself” really wants you to think like them.
Ease is the sign of grace in everything.
Destiny exists only in retrospect.
Life is sometimes sad, but it is always beautiful.
Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.
I write to become a presence, not a memory.
Don’t lift a finger unless it makes you glad to be alive.
Nothing calms an anxious mind like a little mindless entertainment.
True wealth: a life rich in people.
Music is beyond knowledge, as feeling is.
It is better to do something you like than to think about what you don’t like.
My hero is Methuselah. He lived a thousand years.
Lifting my face toward the sun, I lift the weight of the world off my shoulders.