Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Freedom is from within.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Once you label me you negate me.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

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.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

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

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.