Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.