Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about yourmistakes, learn from them.

Some people get lifetimes, some get moments. I’ve got to tell myself it’s what you do with what you get that counts.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.