Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the siz...

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought...

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

¿No escribe uno acaso para entenderse mejor a sí mismo y al mundo?

Her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?I would trust Hagrid with my life, said Dumbledore.

You know how I know I’m brilliant? I picked a man willing to suffer to protect me. I picked a man willing to go without so I can be safe. Too bad that man’s too stupid to realize the only way I’ll eve...

You could buy a car for fifty thousand dollars. A really nice car. Ascanio’s eyes lit up. A Hummer. You could buy a converted Hummer.You don’t need a Hummer. I said.Chicks dig the Hummer.You don`t nee...

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Wow, she breathed.I know, right? Hung like a horse.If you're really nice-and you live through this-I'll promise not to tell V.About my size.She laughed a little, No, that you assumed I'd look at you i...

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that...

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and y...

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us going...

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

We never burned right.