Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I’m not brave enough to love youThe same wayYou’re not strong enough to take me on.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

If you've never tried drugs, DON'T. And if you have, pray.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God’s will.

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.