“To lie about a far country is easy.”

You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Love always has its price, come whence it may.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

You don’t achieve success by “taking it easy” or “working on it later.” You achieve it through persistence and hard work.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people.

It’ easy to find information on Google guru but that’s not equal to gaining knowledge.

Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.