If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. . . but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.
I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.
Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.