For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Don't allow yourself to be held hostage by the opinion of others.

Change is possible.''Change is inevitable.

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Win with grace, lose with dignity!

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.