In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

Happiness can be as elusive as a small fish darting away in a mountain stream.

Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others.

Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.

If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!

Depression is not the lack of happiness, it' the imbalance of it.

Your personal problem will bring national answer!

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.