It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]