I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

You know what I realized? No one else lives in my memories but me.

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

Stop complaining. Plot your course and start your journey. Adjust your sail. Success is waiting to welcome you.

If you don't have anything good to say to yourself, don't say anything at all

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

It's like we are underground, in a cemetery....the sky is the earth...We are hibernating, sleeping all the time and we don't know it. We are dreaming that there is plenty of oxygen.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.