I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.