old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.
I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.
I look most like myself. . . when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.
No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.
Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.
I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.