Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.