I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.

There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.

Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

We have to protect ourselves by doing our own homework.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.