Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.

Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

Some of the things that contributed to my positive attitude were rejoicing, smiling and acknowledging every small step I had made.

She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate.

Seek first to understand before being understood.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.