“I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take...

“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real...

“You're an idiot."<br /> "I've never claimed to be otherwise.”

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”

“Some walks you have to take alone.”

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.<br /> I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size<br /> But when I start to tell them,<br /> They think...

“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my...

“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to...

“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.”

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”