Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
