There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I realized that life doesn't work that way - that just because you have dreams and make plans, it doesn't mean that they will come true.

Being normal? I have never had this experience.

Loneliness is the worst pain that humans can go through, especially in the period when technology is designed to keep people away from each other, and that period is now the 21st century.

As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes - as you did in this case. But things...

I know you weren't born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too.

Every single day you make a choice, to be happy and enjoy the ride... or to be sad worrying about your life. The choice is yours.

Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there...

Living for oneself, respecting our being is one of the most important codes of anybody's existence and a person who fails to justify his being fails to justify the society as well.

A great life evolves with gratitude.

"People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how...

I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence.

If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn't safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them...

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective...

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must...

It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation

More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it...

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was...

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.