Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.

I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.

If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.

Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.