Don’t bring negative to my door.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning’s greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.