I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

And wilt thou have me fashion into speechThe love I bear thee, finding words enough,And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,Between our faces, to cast light on each? -I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teachMy hand to hold my spirits so far offFrom myself--me--that I should bring thee proofIn words, of love hid in me out of reach.Nay, let the silence of my womanhoodCommend my woman-love to thy belief, -Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed,And rend the garment of my life, in brief,By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.

Source Unknown

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea

Henry David Thoreau

Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?

Vivien Kellems

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Charles Baudelaire

I have a map of the United States...actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. I also have a full size map of the world. I hardly ever unroll it.

Steven Wright

God is not a dead equation!

Muhammad Iqbal

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

Luckily, I have some amazing friends.

Rebecca Black

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

May Sarton