Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

Is there more to see?" Brixton asks. "No. Just a long walk back to hope.

It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point? There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.

And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony.

No amount of speed could break me of this darkness... The sorrow is ever clinging to me.

Once a month, for one evening, we are free to wear our natural skins. We are on the outside as we are internally.

You can have the love you want, if you can afford its price tag. For every love has its price, monetary or non-monetary.

Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.

I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.