Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

Maria Sharapova

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Jim Carrey

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

John Mason Brown

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Audre Lorde

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

T. S. Eliot

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned. The first thought is this: fear. I cannot write because I am afraid. Of what?

Howard Nemerov, Journal of the F

Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.

Charles E. Fuller

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

Alexander Graham Bell

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Christopher Ricks

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Jean Racine