You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light

One of the keys to achieving understanding is humility.

We have mainly been taught to just stay in the church, be faithful, serve the church, and serve the man of God.

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

Most people are good people. But they're afraid to speak out, they're afraid for their safety and their jobs. And unfortunately that dictates a lot of their actions.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Everybody thought that Hillary Clinton was gonna win. That's the problem. Everybody thought, nobody was paying attention.