Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don’t, well darlin’ that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray.

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.

You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.

Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

What you eat is everything. What you eat is what you are.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.