You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask.

And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.

I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.

Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible.

I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

Love me, hate me, I’m here to stay!

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and infinity, everything is contained.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.