It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

I came here to show you the way to happiness is not through success but through love, compassion, and kindness.

Be ready for make the change. Every time it is not possible to live with single mindset.

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down.... Everything else is rubbish.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!