People who keep journals have life twice

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

He made his character his platform.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right.

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.

Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.