Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

If a man bites a dog that is news.

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

We have a movement going on, folks. I will never let you down.

Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

Study nature not books

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

America - love it or leave it.