one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

Maybe the new me will be different.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.

The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

Alone. The saddest word in the world.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

Sometimes, however, there is more than hope.Sometimes there is reason.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.