Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Your environment and the associations you keep will affect how you think, feel, and act, and ultimately the results you get.

Tune in to the intuitive messages emanating from your heart. They are the essence of who you are and who you wish to become.

A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.