...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

Once you've fixed the small things that consume your emotional and mental energy, you may be surprised to find you suddenly have time for the things you enjoy

Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.

A bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it's not worth it.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.