The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.