Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.