People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.