I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?