I think Zar learned his lesson. Once burned, twice reserved. Hmf. Once laid down, always hungry would be a better saying for this case.

"Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along - consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about."

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

When my son was growing up, he constantly asked me to give him piggyback rides. Though I knew how much he loved them, I was always too busy to play with him. I had reports to read or meetings to...

No matter what my fucking last words were, please say they were these: 'I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.'

Work must reflect the randomness of life, with its incessant, merciless, almost humorous bombardment of highly contrasting emotions and experiences.

Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really...

Take a good rest, small bird, then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard...

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Didn't books say that too: that there is always a price to pay for happiness?

You get into trouble the way debutantes get into ball gowns.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two - by - four. I always found listening easier.

... but all your 'sorrys' are gone when a person dies... That's why you have to say all your 'sorrys' and 'I love yous' while a person is living, because tomorrow isn't promised.

Life is to be lived, not shunted aside until all the days are aches and ashes.

Get used to disappointment.

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

I could dodge the kick, but the stable door was already down - and I hadn't even realised it until I saw the splinters.

Until recently, I lived in a world where lost things could always be replaced. But it has been made overwhelmingly clear to me now that anything you think is yours by right can vanish, and what you...

But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado, sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,...

Love your siblings. Love them well, for they are your blood, and when you are unsure, or times are difficult, they will be the ones to stand by your side.

I believed I had won the world in an hour and that I still didn't know I could lose it in a minute.

At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can travel and the borders we will never cross. And we go from there.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving...

My grandma taught me a lot of dirty tricks. I know places to dig in a knuckle and make a grown man scream like a little girl.

Life is short. You have to do what you can while you have the chance.