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.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
I don't do drugs, I am drugs
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Nothing is black or white.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
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.
