When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Some mistakes are worth making twice.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

When you're with girl you want to be with, everything's perfect.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.

The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.