Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

You have to be odd to be number one.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

...if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.