True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

If the Christian life seems boring, I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG!

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I’d oblige you. (Xypher)