Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

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.

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

I do have cellulite. I have it everywhere. From the neck down!

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.