If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

In order to keep standing, one must first know how and why should they stand,

I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand - Contempt is Failure's share!

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

Remember to be yourself.

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.