There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy.

To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being!

I live by grace.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.