“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
“Buy a pup and your money will buy. Love unflinching that cannot lie.”
“We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.”
“You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
“You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.”
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”.
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.