Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.

If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted -- for everybody to love me.

All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.

We're all dancing in the darkness.

I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!

It's good to remember where you've been.

I think sleep is unrated.

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

Be good or don't get caught.

You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated... But beware I bite.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

Everybody is seeking to reach higher self but hardly anyone reaches.

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

Erik got to his feet, aware of her watching him, and tried not to preen at the frank admiration in her eyes. Preening was not manly.

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

I prefer cash but so many places only take cards these days, it forces you down a line and I don't like that.

Always have something to look forward to.

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.