Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Don’t whittle your potential, just because others don’t believe in you. The only worthy question is “Do You Believe in You?

Valek was liquid in motion. As i watched him, one word came to mind: beautiful.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.