We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

I commit my life to listening to my own heart and soul.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.

Surrender is a powerful force.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

Signori has all the tricks up his book.