the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

When you prepare, regularly work hard, create value, help others get what they want, and persevere... the life of your dreams is INEVITABLE.

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.

I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.

At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.

The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.

...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.