You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

Success only hurts the first time.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

And you left your mark on me...With the destruction of us, finally, we became no one.

Her fingers dug into the doorframe she leaned on, hoping and praying that he would just step out of the shadows and kiss her the way he had done so often in her dreams.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

A woman is a sometime thing.

I am not made for despair

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

It is not the life that matters, but the journey.

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

Nothing in life is ritual.