Without habitual self-examination, you can be hypocritical, but not see it.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

You don't fight cancer with grants, or heart disease with grants.

When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.