"There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."

"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."

"As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us."

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

"I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."