I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.

O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean

I didn’t treat my girl like she was mineYeah, I thought I didn’t need her at the timeBut I changed my way of thinkin’ when she leftYeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned it by myself

There is no mistake in nature.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

You serve the country, and you help the President. If the President wants you to leave, you know, you are two corridors down.

Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.