We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.

My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.

Don’t forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Scars are something of a body’s memoir.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.

Volunteer. Find ways to be useful. Be kind.

I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

Let us take from Nature only what we really need, and try to give back to some extent.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.