I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

May God give us much more grace to eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission.

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian

Your ability to consummate Leadership or follower-ship brings fulfillment at each appointed time in life

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.

what choice have I? I cannot live without you, but I will not destroy your soul." -Edward Cullen