"everything is okay in the end. so if its not okay right now, its not the end."
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
" I've seen things you couldn't imagine. I've done things I preferred you didn't. I've never had a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes, a lot of bloody calls. So many years and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of... you. I'm not asking you for anything when I say I love you. It's not because I want you, or can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you and I understand with perfect clarity what you are. You're a hell of a woman."
"stick with it. its worth it"
"when we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free"
"I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?"
"Every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam."
"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."
"You must possess chaos in your soul if you wish to be born again as a star."
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
"regret and sorrow go hand in hand and sweetly they sing that sickening, dismal song. on down life's weary i've list to them sing it far too many times too long. what is a soul to do, for when that song becomes too familiar we start to sing along. so dear please promise me that if you start too hear it's