The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

A fast tongue is a sign of a slow brain

A mother is a mother still The holiest thing alive.

Why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It’s not like they are making you better… they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.