We're all in the human race. The question is, are you running toward your dreams or just away from your fears?

Your transformation will begin the moment you stop worrying for someone rise to rescue you.

She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face.

Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.

Opening to love will always involve risk, but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.

Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory.

When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim, the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.

Strangely incurious, her lovers from before. She has worlds within I'm longing to explore.

She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.

She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.

I want to hold you close, skin on skin, and let our heartbeats have a conversation.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.

I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love.