The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it?

May you find the strength of your sacred-self.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

One’s life is short, but the life of the spirit is long.

Without love, the world would be a heap of ruins.

Being in love is to be half-cooked inside an eggshell called love.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

Miley would never have been Hannah Montana.

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

My big goal in life is to prove people wrong.