Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders - #insearchofasoulmate

You are so close I want to breath you in.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

I have found that CrossFit has made me more fit than I have ever been.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

Music is the brandy of the damned.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.