We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.