The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

I’m not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don’t go building castles in the air. You’ll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.

His Christianity was muscular.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.