You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

Often things are as bad as they seem.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.