You cannot drink the nectar of love without bleeding for its thorns.

Love freelyAsk kindlyLive gentlyLove fiercelyHope infinitelyRage internallyForgive repeatedlySpeak wiselyFeel deeply

It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.

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Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive actions.

As I did, there, in perfect condition, to be admired by five sets of wondering eyes, was an enormous, glistening, moist, chocolate cake.

You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.

Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.