Don't let your habits become handcuffs

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.

Depression is a reality with everyone. What’s important is the ability to move on.

Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.