“What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.

Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.

Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life

Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment.

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

We’ve really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn’t have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.