Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.

We create our own enemies

Precedence exists in humanity as it does with law.

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.

Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.