I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

There is measure in all things.

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans