But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Words is but wind but dunts is the devil

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Do not lose the person God created you to be Trying to be the person The world wants you to be You are not created to fit it in You are here on earth, For a greater purpose.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

What cannot be said, will get wept.

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.