I have yet to figure out a better way to combat hate than to love harder.

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.

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

When I'm right, no one remembers.When I am wrong, no one forgets.

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'