My secret self, the scarecrow-Lacey built of twigs and mud and bark, the Lacey who was made of forest and would someday be summoned home.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are...
His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interes...
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.