Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

Don’t worry, be happy! Embrace your weirdness.

The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.