Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Faith is a holy flame.

Imagination is the propulsion of Life once we exhaust all reality.

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.