Until you try to fly, you will never know how high you can soar.

Do not judge me for the many things I do, but rather judge yourself for that which you do not.

It is our thoughts, actions and reactions that manifest our future.

My greatness shall never be measured by my actions or accomplishments, but rather by those of my son's guided by my teachings.

Pain reminds us that we are alive and breathing, that we still have the strength within to fight

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

There’s nothing typical about Genuine Love. To be loved authentically is to be blessed beyond measure. Only a fool would take advantage of something that so many people yearn for.

When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

I don't know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It's the only actual boundary between the body and the world, between a body and any other body.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.