Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.

Patient is a persistent act.

From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.