I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

I never expected to be anybody important.

What is true belongs to me!

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Never complain and never explain.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.