It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.