What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it.

Felix Alba-Juez

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

King Hussein I

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Paulo Coelho

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

William Hazlitt

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

Reese Witherspoon

Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.

W. H. Auden

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Justin Timberlake

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

Jodi Picoult

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

Leonard Cohen

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Samuel Richardson