For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

I am not now That which I have been.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Thought is free.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.