Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

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.

When there's Christmas in hell. that's what i call real Christmas!

I don't know that I'm post-anything. I'd like to think maybe I'm post-bullshit.

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

To begin, at the beginning.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.