I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black person in the world or is he the blackest white person in the world?"

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.

Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

Adversity is a stimulus.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.