I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

Love is breathing each other with all madness

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

I don't know why I write what I write.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.

Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.