We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Oscar Wilde

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Nadine Gordimer

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

Jodi Picoult

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

Christopher Hitchens

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

Ron Silver

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

Alfred Russel Wallace

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Wally Lamb

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Mark Edwards

Every singly lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have chosen me. Forever.

Lauren Kate

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between...this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one -- which is really the realm of the artist.

Federico Fellini