Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life!

The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too.

People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

Scars are but evidence of life and wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We may not make the same mistakes again.

Scars are but evidence of life.

More often, one decision can change the entire course of a life.

I'll be fine. It's just hard to love somebody who doesn't love you back, " Fallon answered.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.

As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.