Your mind is a book

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...

You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

Do what makes you happy. Life is too short to live on other people's expectations

His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.