It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

None of us will truly have freedom until we know what it means to lose everything" - Laney

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

When I became a Christian my confidence grew.

People say get a job doing something you love. So far no one has offered to hire me to eat Whoppers with a switchblade.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.