People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

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.

On even the darkest of days, the brightest thing in my life is you.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

Any sincere thought is irresistible.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

If love never lasts forever, then what's forever for?

Can serving the mother be a favour? A son is only dedicated to serve the mother....The favour has been done by the party.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.