If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

Life tends to deliver on what we order…so when you think I’m worthless, you get a life fitting what thought. When you think I’m fabulous…you get that.

Themistocles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks I govern the Athenians you my wife govern me your son governs you."

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.

The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.