I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.

You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.

Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.

Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don’t, well darlin’ that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray.

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be.

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

Life's experiences should turn into real understanding.

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.