Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

If you know me, I don't live in this dismal world. I mean, I like to have fun. My friends are comedians.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.