I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

A man has a right to want to live.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!