What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.
There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.
there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now
There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.
You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was. " I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.
You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.
Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.