it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

that darkest of syllables, death.

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.

When you make things too easy on someone, you’re giving them a discount on your worth.

...every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.