Understand your fears and then work to conquer them.

I have found that I really am different. There’s nobody like me. And not that it’s good or bad.

Bobby would drive to the net injured, he would drive to the net hurt. He played that way every night. He told Bobby that he was the one who made him famous.

Be thankful for all that you have.

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.

I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

If you don't know how to make fire you can ask someone or stay in the cold

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.