I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.

Never give up anything your destiny demands while in search of temporary pleasures.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I think a lot of us are multiple things that don't always fit together neatly in a bio box.

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!