Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

Kindness is the basic ingredient for the recipe of happiness.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

A best friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself