The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

My home is in heaven. I’m just passing through this world.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

All right cupcakes listen up!

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.