Freedom is from within.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

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

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

I am not now That which I have been.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.