Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

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 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.

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.

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.