So much done and so much learned, but so much more to do and see, and learn.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?

I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role.

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

Hatred, like straw, makes for a lumpy mattress.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

Fear is the great barrier to human growth.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums