Dear Teenage Self, That guy you're crazy about, Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day, That feeling will have gone away.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

Americans are once again looking outward

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

I just want to thank God for everything he has done in my life.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

Your mind is your religion.

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.