And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What’s that got to do with the heart?

Show me a universal life manual and I will show you a ready-made scam.Life is spontaneous. Live and learn.

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.