I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Encouragement is the faith of enthusiasm.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

The world is always waiting on you to show it what you are truly made of through your actions.

Free will, " she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.