Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.

Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.

We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

I'm a pretty low-stress guy. I take what the golf course gives me. Some days, when I'm in full control, I'm able to fire at pins with 5-irons. Other days, I'm looking more toward the middle of the green.

Getting angry in a stressful situation is like trying to clean something with dirt.

The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

Its hardware that makes a machine fast. Its software that makes a fast machine slow.

I don't know if there was even a hundred million dollars in the whole country!

If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two hours here in Miami. Cubans in Miami would be the first to buy. In Miami, 80 percent of the people we sell to are foreigners. Havana is a city very similar to Miami... There's good music, good theater, good ballet.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a new consensus to emerge of disaffected liberals, classical liberals, dissident minorities like gays, small-state conservatives, libertarians, people who basically want to be left alone.

Time. Like a petal in the wind, Flows softly by. As old lives are taken, New ones begin. A continual chain, Which lasts throughout eternity. Every life but a minute in time, But each of equal importance.

You can do anything you decide to do.

The body is an amazing system.

Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

It isnt a hunch but the subconscious mind which is the creative mind at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.

The first step toward heaven is to see ourselves near hell.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.