He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.