There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve...

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common...

Wenn einen das Schicksal nicht zum Lachen bringt, dann hat man den Witz nicht kapiert.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so...

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the...

The clue to everything a man should love and fear in her was there right from the start in the ironic smile that primed and swelled the archery of her full lips. There was pride...

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see....

What is it?” she asked. “I’m looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren’t you?” “I’m afraid not,” she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. “There’s too much of the devil in...

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say...

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart...

La sencilla y sorprendente verdad sobre la India y sobre su gente es que cuando vas a su país y tratas con ellos, el corazón siempre te guía más sabiamente que la cabeza. No hay...

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

The lies we tell ourselves are the ghosts that haunt the empty house of midnight.

If fate doesn’t make you laugh, you just don’t get the joke.

Ein guter Mann ist so stark, wie er es für die richtige Frau sein muss.

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.

Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.

But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a...

It isn’t a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Every day, when you’re on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

It’s such a huge arrogance to love someone, and there’s too much of it around. There’s too much love in this world. Sometimes I think that’s what heavens is– a place where everybody’s happy because...

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the...

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get – who we fight for, who we...

Love survives in us precisely because it isn’t wise.

Powerful people have no regrets.

…he’d been able to deal with that pain because he’d accepted his own part in causing it

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if...

I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier had even given me a name for it – assassin grief, he’d once...

And I’d learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

A strong man can make his own luck.